As of today, 11/17/09, I will no longer be offering free templates. Also, if you have one of my free templates you may think about either hosting the images at your own image hosting site like photobucket.com or finding a new template all together. I am incurring monthly bandwidth charges that I am not being compensated for on this blog. It was a great idea, but it is just too big of a task for one person. None of the templates you previously downloaded are guaranteed to be around forever so please feel free to email me if you need help hosting the images.

6. Near the bottom of your old template you will need to copy from <b:section to </b:section> for the crosscol-wrapper, main-wrapper, side-wrapper, and footer (if you have widgets in these it will say). Here is an example of the crosscol-wrapper and main-wrapper and what to copy:

Here is an example of the sidebar-wrapper and what to copy:7. Place the OLD widget codes into your NEW html that is in the .txt file one by one.8. When you are finished copying widget codes you can then select all, copy, and paste this NEW entire code into your HTML on blogger.9. If you are about to delete widgets it will warn you!10. If all is well, then SAVE!

The idea for Blog Designs Free came about after I started to become interested in creating blog templates! I first started by helping out friends and giving simple html tips. Soon I was sucked in and ready to learn more! I decided to compile all of my creativity and offer it for FREE on one site!

Why Free?

First of all, I am by no means a professional. I just love to be creative and see how each new design will turn out! I do not feel like this work should have a charge. I do however, appreciate donations of any kind if you appreciate and use my templates. The designs do take quite a bit of time and energy. Secondly, I wanted to be able to provide cute sites to bloggers who could not afford or did not wish to spend hard earned money on site designs (I can feel your pain and that's why I decided to learn how to do it myself!).

Make sure to click the Free Custom Headers link to find out more about how to get your very own personalized header for the template you downloaded! Or, you can use the pre-made template as is!

You may already know that the "bots" or "spiders" can retrieve your email address when it has been published on your site. Even spelling it out (soandso [at] suchandsuch [dot] com) they can find you and send SPAM!

A way around it is to develop a contact form for your site. You can do this easily and FREE using Google Docs!

Here are the steps:1. Create an account with Google and open up the Docs page2. Click on "New" and scroll down to "Form"3. The "form screen" will pop up and give you step by step instructions for what questions you would like to have4. SAVE5. Click on "More Actions" and choose "Embed". This will give you the html code you can put onto your website!6. Or... you can copy the URL address at the bottom and link to the form.7. MAKE SURE you click out of the form and then open it back up. In the right hand corner you will see a button that says "Share". Make sure you click this and scroll down to "Set Notification Rules" so that you will be notified any time the form changes!

You simply want to add the html of the buttons where it says "YOUR HTML CODES HERE". You can change the appearance of your scroll box by changing the height, width, adding a border and adding a color (add color name after "solid").

If this happens to be a faulty code please send me a message. Also, if you are having any trouble with this please feel free to "Contact Me" at the top of this page!